Battle of Exceptionalism in the South China Sea
Throughout the early part of the 21st Century, the world has been preoccupied by the rise of China and the… Read more >
Russia, Ukrainian separatists & Malaysian Flight MH717: Changing the tide of Russia’s resurgence?
Vladimir Putin’s stunning stratagem of capturing the former Russian province of Crimea (March 21, 2014) from the Ukraine, which caught… Read more >
The Politics of Carbon: A Case of Throwing Good Money after Bad?
In an interesting piece published in The Western Australian, February 28th, it was suggested that the Australian Federal Government might… Read more >
Japan’s post Fukushima diplomacy
Over the years Japan has been an active player, and in some areas, a leader in global environmental and climate… Read more >
Climate Change Fact Sheet
1. The Earth is a dynamic geological entity driven by both internal processes and extraterrestrial processes – primarily the Sun… Read more >
Man-Made Climate Change: A Tale of Lies and Waste
Wednesday, the 23rd of March 2011 witnessed a political rally in Canberra, launched by the Liberal-National Coalition against the Gillard… Read more >
Environmental Security Issues
What is meant by these words? Firstly – climate. The simplest definition from the Shorter Oxford dictionary is “Condition (of… Read more >
To Know or Not to Know: Ukraine, Russia & the West
We in the West are not necessarily receiving an objective view of the current conflict. At what point do newspaper… Read more >
The Inadequacy of Counter-insurgency as ‘Strategy’
Having read ‘The End of the Age of Petraeus’ by Fred Kaplan in the January/February 2013 edition of Foreign Affairs,… Read more >
The Dragon and the Falcon: Chinese and Gulf Arab Neo-colonial Competition in 21st Century Africa
“Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neocolonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above… Read more >